Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to farmers to sell half the grain they bring in for storage? The stock answer of Ford County farmers: "Nuts to that." If the Government tried to put a penalty on everybody who does not comply, it would have to move against about 95% of the wheat belt's farmers...
...Cure-All. In addition to this deflationary revaluation, Canada means also to do some belt-tightening. If prices go too high in the U.S., then Canada will probably cut down on certain imports. The attitude of some officials was: "If oranges go way up, we'll get along without oranges as England does. Let Canadians eat Canadian apples...
...book jacket emphasizes that Miss Howe was not originally a novelist, but a monologuist, spending her salad days barnstorming around the country before beginning as a writer. With two books under her belt, Miss Howe is presumably deemed a novelist. Actually, she has remained a monologuist. "We Happy Few" is not a novel, really, but a series of vignettes, all of which black out with a punch line. Many of these are very funny, and Miss Howe's satire bites deep, but wisecracks do not a novel make...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
...with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...